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greetings tech gods......i bow to your wisdom

i have used these forums twice before and was impressed both times with the results

so now i come to you for advice on a new system!

i have spent two days reading these forums and researching other articles to get the best deal for my money

unfortunately i dont have scads of money laying around(kids wife all costs money)and i noticed most of these others seem tyo have 1200+ us for thier new comp ....i dont!

instead id like to spend 600 to 800 max on a gaming tower

i have never built a comp b4 and have been looking at places like

ibuypower and cyberpower inc to put one together(does it really cost that much more to get it from these sites rather than building your own?)

and is onboard sound ok or just garbage?

help a poor working man to feed his honest need for gaming with suggestions on capable parts or comps in my range

id really like to be able to just go online and order it unless i will save a good amount of money by building it

thank you for your time...........soulafien
 
You will save money building it, enabling you to get faster parts. It's so nice to be single and not have to support other people :cool: Hold on, I'll try and find some parts for you.
 
MSI K8N NEO4-F
AMD ATHLON 64 3200+
Corsair valueselect 1GB
Seagate barracuda 80GB sat150 hd d
Aspire X-infinity
Antec smartpower some what power supply
eVGA 6800GS
 
Agreed with 003. Its easy to piece together a computer, as long as you do a little homework first. I'll follow suit and put together some parts for a build. You mentioned just for the tower, so here we go.

*Please stand by*
 
Here is your new system, enjoy:

eVGA 6800GS - $209:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130258

Athlon 64 3200+ Venice - $152:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103535

DFI nF4-DAGF - $89:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813136160

Seagate Barracuda 120GB HDD - $83:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148039

OCZ Value Series 1GB (2 x 512MB) RAM - $75.99 (after rebate):
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820227039

Lian Li PC-7 B Plus - $89:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811112212

Antec TPII 550W PSU - $89:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817103931

Grand total - $786.99

@ Elbatrop1,
Thats a nice system, however you give him CPU power rather than graphics power, I suggested the 6800GS video card which has 256mb of gddr3 memory, and 425/1000 clocks with 12 pipes, and he can unlock the extra 4 pipes if he is lucky -- this card was just released, and is a very good bang for the buck, it is as fast as the 6800gt in most tests, and slightly beats it by a few fps in others. He can easily overclock the 3200+ to 2.2 or 2.4GHz on stock cooling.
 
Hmmm 003's build includes that new GS vid card. I havent seen any benchmarks for it. Perhaps it is a better deal than the Vanilla 6800, as I suggested.
 
^^i disgust that mobo, why are you offering DFI when he is not going to OC thats not even a good DFI lanparty man you should no better :( give him MIS or gigabyte :D
 
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